AAA: JMcNW

James McNeill Whistler Papers (Glasgow), Archives of American Art (AAA), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Amburger Datenbank

Amburger Datenbank, Osteuropa Institut München/Historische Abteilung (Munich, Germany)

AMW 1850 Diary

Anna McNeill Whistler 1850 Diary, box 33, Pennell–Whistler Collection, 1597–1937, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

APS: Scaliger

B Sca 42, Scaliger Papers, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

Arkhiv GE

Arkhiv gosudarstvennogo Èrmitazha [Archive of the State Hermitage], St. Petersburg

AVPRI

Arkhiv Vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Imperii [Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire], Moscow

AVPRI: Bodisco

AVPRI: Fond DLS i KhD, f. spiski, op. 464, d. 402, Formuliarnyi spisok o sluzhbe Chrezvychainogo Poslannika i Polnomochnogo Ministra pri Soedinennykh Amerikanskikh Shtatakh Tainogo Sovetnika Bodisko. Sostavlen 5go Oktiabria 1853 goda [Service Record of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America Privy Councilor Bodisko. Compiled on 5 October 1853].

BRBC STP 1845

RGIA: Fond 1689, op. 1, d. 13. British Residents and British Congregation St. Petersburg 1845

BUHG: Colin Ingersoll Journal

Colin Ingersoll Journal, Ralph McAllister Ingersoll Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University

CHS: Whistler

James Whistler Wood [son of Major G.W. Whistler’s youngest sister, Caroline (Whistler) Wood], comp., Whistler Family Genealogy ([Chicago]: published by the author, 1903), Chicago Historical Society

Crichton Letters

Correspondence between Sir A. William Crichton and Joseph Robinson Pease, Records of the Pease Family, Hull History Centre, Hull, UK, fols. C DFP 1021 – C DFP 1124

Eastwick Letters

The Eastwick family correspondence, some 116 letters, is in the possession of Estelle and David Knapp of New Albany, Ohio

GLRO

Greater London Records Office and History Library (now the London Metropolitan Archives

GRM

Gosudarstvennyi Russkii muzei (GRM) [State Russian Museum], St. Peterburg

GRM OR

Gosudarstvennyi Russkii muzei Otdel rukopisei [State Russian Museum Manuscript Division], St. Petersburg

GRM OR: Koritskii, Zapisi

Arkhiv Gos. Russkogo muzeia, Fond 22, d. 37 Fond Zheleznova Mikhaila Ivanovicha Kratkie zapisi Koritskogo A.O. (uchenik K.P. Briullova) o zhizni i rabotakh K.P. Briullova 1843-1847 [Archive of the State Russian Museum: Collection of M.I. Zheleznov. Brief notes by A.O. Koritskii (pupil of K.P. Briullov) about the life and works of K.P. Briullov 1843–1847], f. 22v, St. Petersburg

GRO

General Register Office for England and Wales

GUL: Laver Papers

James Laver Papers, Special Collections, Glasgow University Library Manuscript Department

GUL: Whistler Collectio

Whistler Collection, Special Collections, Glasgow University Library Manuscript Department

HSP

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

HSP: Harrison Letterbook No. 1

Joseph Harrison, Jr., Letterbooks (No. 1: 15 April 1844 – 27 March 1850; No. 2: 27 March 1851 – 12 February 1852; No. 3: 16 December 1852 – 13 October 1854) ), Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

HUA

Harvard University Archives, Cambridge, MA

HUBL: Ropes Papers

Ropes Family Papers, Baker Business School Library Special Collections, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

IGI

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. This citation refers to all of the documents and information accessible through the extensive IGI database, including ancestry.com.

IRLI

Institut russkoi literatury Akademii nauk (Pushkinskii dom) [Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House)]

JISCE

Journal of the Incorporated Synod of the Church of England in the Diocese of Toronto

KAS

Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Kilkenny, Ireland

LC: P W

Pennell–Whistler Collection, 1597–1937, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

LIIZhT

Leningradskii institut inzhenerov zheleznodorozhnogo transporta [Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers], Rukopisnyi otdel [Manuscript Division], St. Petersburg

LRA

Leeds Russian Archive Special Collections, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

LRA: Gellibrand Papers

Gellibrand Family Papers, LRA, MS 1110, Leeds Russian Archive Special Collections, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

LRA: Lady Gellibrand

An unpublished history of the Gellibrand family by her grandmother, Lady Elizabeth Gellibrand, a copy of which is in the possession of Jane D’Arcy

LRO

Lancashire Record Office, Preston, Lancashire

Maingay Family Papers

This collection includes information and photographs supplied to me by Rosemary K.F. Clarke of Weybourne, Norfolk; her sister, Annabel Maingay of Stiffkey, Norfolk; her aunt and uncle, Dr. Hugh and Mrs. Hope Maingay of Norwich, Norfolk; and her cousin, James Maingay of Schoten, Belgium.

MdHS

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD

MdHS: Winans Papers

Winans Papers, MS 916, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD

Mel’nikov, Svedeniia

RGIA: Fond 446, op. 12, d. 4. P.P. Mel’nikov, Svedeniia o russkikh zheleznykh dorogakh [Information about Russian Railways], sect. 1, bk. 1

MHS

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

MHS: Ropes Papers

Ropes Family Papers, 1734–1952, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

MLKML

Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Washington, DC

N-YHS

New-York Historical Society

N-YHS: Bliss Papers

Papers, 1846–1897, MSS Collection (BV Bliss, George); New-York Historical Society Library

N-YHS: Maxwell Papers

J.S. [John Stevenson] Maxwell Papers, 1830–1863, New-York Historical Society Library

NAUK

National Archives [UK], Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England

NAUS

U.S. National Archives, Washington, DC

NAUS: Passports, M1371, roll 2

M1371: Registers and Indexes for Passport Applications, American Embassy London Passport Book 1836–1845, roll 2, U.S. National Archives, Washington, DC

NAUS: Passports, RG84, C18.2

RG84: Records of Foreign Service Posts, Diplomatic Posts, American Embassy, Great Britain, C18.2: London Passport Book 1836–1845, U.S. National Archives, Washington, DC

NAUS: Passports, RG84, C18.

RG84: Records of Foreign Service Posts – Diplomatic Posts – Great Britain, vol. 1588, C18.3: Passport Book commencing 9 August 1845, U.S. National Archives, Washington, DC

Nicholson Papers

Papers of the Nicholson Family (c 17/2/23), Manchester Central Library, Manchester, UK

NLS

National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

NSDAR

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC

NYPL

New York Public Library

NYPL: AWPD

Anna Whistler’s Petersburg Diaries, James McNeill Whistler Papers, MssCol 3311 Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library

NYPL: Swift Papers

Joseph G. Swift Correspondence, 1809-1862, MssCol. 2935. Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library

Olographe Testament

The English translation of the will of Baron Alexander Bodisco, originally in French, provided by Robert W. Lyle, curator, Peabody Room, Georgetown Regional Branch of District of Columbia Public Library

OPRS

Old Parochial Registers of Scotland. These include Old Parish Registers of Baptisms, Old Parish Registers of Deaths, and Old Parish Registers of Marriage Banns.

PAHRC

Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center, Wynnewood, PA

Parish of St. Jacob

Church Records for the Parish of St. Jacob, City Archives of Stockholm

PEM

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

PEM: Fettyplace Journal

H.K. Fettyplace, Journal of a Voyage from Mobile to Havana (via New Orleans) Hence to St. Petersburg and from Hense [sic] to Boston on Board the Ship “Peterhof” Captain L. Endicott, A. 1848, Peabody and Essex Museum Library, Salem, MA

PREC STP

Parish Registers of the English Church, St. Petersburg, held at the Guildhall Library, London. These are copies of the originals contained in RGIA: Fond 1689, op. 1, ed. khr. 1 Register British Factory Chapel St. Petersburg [1763–1812]; Fond 1689, op. 1, d. 2 [1812–1830]; Fond 1689, op. 1, d. 3 [1831 – Jan. through 1846 – Dec.]; Fond 1689, op. 1, d. 4 [1847–1867].

PRO

Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London, UK. The national archives of the UK were housed at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London, from 1838 until 2003, when they merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives (NAUK), now based in Kew, Richmond.

RGIA

Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv [Russian State Historical Archive], St. Petersburg

RGIA: A.O. Koritskii

RGIA: Fond 472, op. 32 (323/1125), d. 1408 Formuliarnyi spisok Pomoshchnika Nachal’nika 2 Otdeleniia Gubernskogo Sekretaria Aleksandra Osipovicha Koritskogo [Service Record of Provincial Secretary Aleksandr Osipovich Koritskii, Assistant to the Director of the Second Department [of the Imperial Hermitage].

RGIA: Golland. reform. tserkov’

RGIA: Fond 40, op. 1. Gollandskaia reformatorskaia tserkov’, 1717–1921 gg., d. 2 Tserkovnaia kniga zapisei rozhdenii, venchanii i smertei, 1808–1883 [Dutch Reformed Church, 1717–1921. Church register of births, marriages and deaths, 1808 – 1883]

RGIA: Kamer-fur’erskii zhurnal

RGIA: Fond 516, op. 28/1618, d. 153. Kamer-fur’erskii zhurnal [Chamberlain’s Journal], 1844

RGIA: Kamer-fur’erskii zhurnal, O konchine … Aleksandry Nikolaevny

RGIA: Fond 516, op. 28/1618, d. 153. Kamer-fur’erskii zhurnal [Chamberlain’s Journal], 1844. Zhurnal. O konchine i pogrebenii v Boze pochivaiushchei Velikoi Kniagini Aleksandry Nikolaevny. S 29Ɯ Iiulia po 5e chis: Avgusta 1844Ɯ goda [Concerning the decease and burial of Grand Duchess Aleksandra Nikolaevna, reposing in God. From the 29th of July through the 5th of August [OS] 1844]

RNB OR

Rukopisnyi otdel Rossiiskoi natsional’noi biblioteki [Manuscript Division of the Russian National Library], St. Petersburg

SHS

Stonington Historical Society, Stonington, CT

Shtukenberg, Memuary

A.I. Shtukenberg, Memuary Antona Shtukenberga [Memoirs of Anton Shtukenberg], 3 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1836–61), Rukopisnyi otdel (RO) [Manuscript Division], Leningradskii institut inzhenerov zheleznodorozhnogo transporta (LIIZhT) [Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers], St. Petersburg

SoG

Society of Genealogists, London

SRO

Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh

SRO: Hamilton

Duke of Hamilton Papers, Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh

St. Catherine’s Swedish Church Registers

Register of St. Catherine’s Swedish Church in St. Petersburg, Department of Private Archives, National Archives, Stockholm, Sweden

TsGALI

Tsentral’nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva [Central State Archive of Literature and Art], Moscow

TsGIA SPb

Tsentral’nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv Sankt Peterburga [Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg]

USMA

United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

USMAL: A.J. Swift Papers

Alexander J. Swift (1810–1847) Papers, United States Military Academy Library, West Point, NY

USMAL: J.G. Swift Papers

Letters of General Joseph G. Swift; Swift, Joseph Gardner, 1783–1865, Papers 1800–1865; Manuscripts, 19th Century 10; United States Military Academy Library, West Point, NY

USMAL: Thayer Papers

Sylvanus Thayer Papers, United States Military Academy Library, West Point, NY

USMAL: W.H. Swift Papers

William Henry Swift, USMA 1819, CU231: Correspondence 1820–1857, Letters written to his brother, General Joseph G. Swift. Washington, 26 March 1846, United States Military Academy Library, West Point, NY